The Albuquerque Police Division has launched terrifying footage of the second the rushing driver of a Ford Mustang T-boned a fully-loaded college bus in late February.

Mario Perez, 49, was driving a white Mustang at greater than 100 mph (161 km/h) on the time, allegedly whereas in a race with a blue Mustang that fled the scene. The velocity restrict within the space is 40 mph (64 km/h).

Perez’s Mustang slammed into one of many wheels of the varsity bus, flipping it over and flinging the passengers all through the bus’s cabin. Seven of the kids within the bus had been taken to a close-by hospital after the crash, together with two with critical leg accidents, one with a damaged femur, and a 13-year-old college scholar with a pelvic fracture.

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The motive force of the blue Mustang allegedly fled the scene after the accident. Perez suffered a damaged femur that required surgical procedure and confirmed no indicators of intoxication on the time of the crash.

“They had been racing,” the bus driver revealed to police. “There have been two, a white automotive and the Mustang that’s there, all broken. They had been rushing on every lane. And the man didn’t have wherever to go – so after I was throughout, this man was beating him so he simply went straight into me.”

Perez has been charged with two counts of reckless driving inflicting nice bodily hurt, a cost that carries as much as six years in jail, Fox Information studies.

“These kids on that bus might have died as a result of folks had been actually simply having enjoyable of their sports activities automobiles. That ought to by no means be acceptable,” Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller stated throughout a press convention after the crash.

Footage taken within the aftermarket of the crash exhibits the varsity bus resting on its aspect and in opposition to a brick wall. The entrance finish of the Mustang was utterly destroyed within the accident.